KISS Server for Static HTML File with Express

Overview

In one of the posts I have configured Microservice with ASP.NET Core which was called via jQuery from static html file. However there was no server that time and I had to navigate to specific file. So how I can host static html file on Ubuntu? Which server for static HTML file would be simple, stupid?

Options

There is plenty of them. Let me list few that I have considered

Appache – old timer, however sounds too heavy

nginx – sounds awesome, but still a bit too much

kestrel – I’m using it anyway, but I don’t want to have any c# code in this project

express – that’s sounds like a good candidate for KISS approach

Installing and Running Express

Install

This is really simple: http://expressjs.com/en/starter/installing.html